Sony's just-announced TX5 Cyber-shot digital camera might just be a dream come true for clumsy or masochistic photographers. Unlike your wimpy point-n-shoot, the TX5 can be dunked in up to 10 feet of water, which means you can safely take it snorkeling and capture the underwater world in photos, panoramic shots, or 720p HD video[......]
Archive for February, 2010
What do you carry on your USB stick? [......]
Samsung made good on its promise to deliver its R430 notebook to the U.S. [......]
There's a new botnet in town, and this one has the potential to trump Conficker, says security firm Netwitness , which discovered the botnet. According to Netwitness, the Kneber botnet has already infected more than 74,000 macnines worldwide. Netwitness describes Kneber as a ZeuS Trojan botnet, and more than half of the systems infected also have the Waledac Trojan, the same worm that was used to create email spam botnets assoicated with Conficker. [......]
Sans Digital this week unveiled a new set of flexible 4-bay storage solutions sporting Firewire interfaces in both portable tower and enterprise rackmount formats. These include the TowerSTOR TS4CT and EliteRAID ER104CT, both of which come with embedded hardware RAID, Firewire 400 and 800 ports, eSATA, and of course USB 2.0 interfaces[......]
The Revolution was televised , and it was pretty all right, we guess. But now Sid Meier’s up to his old tricks again , and we couldn’t be happier[......]
At Maximum PC, computer hardware is our bread and butter. We review it, preview it, and just generally love to talk about it. Unfortunately, hardware becomes less important with each passing day, as more and more software moves onto the internet[......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews One of the "national priorities" in the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan is to use high-speed connectivity to "provide more educational opportunities and improve outcomes" for those in rural areas and inner cities. The FCC said today that 97% percent of public elementary and secondary schools do have Internet access, but speeds are insufficient, and services are being wasted[......]
By Charles King, E-Commerce Times Recent IT industry events have created a field day for those who think the news tend to come in "threes": During a five-hour-plus long event highlighting the conclusion of its Sun Microsystems deal, Oracle discussed plans for the company's hardware division, and said it would continue investing in Sun's Sparc- and X64-based systems and storage hardware. The company provided a Sparc road map and said it was planning upgrades for systems based on both the Sparc T series (now made by Oracle) and the Sparc64 chips made by Sun partner Fujitsu. [......]
For those who can’t make up their mind: netbook or eReader, enTourage has you covered: the eDGe, a clamshell device that is half netbook, half eReader. But it looks like you’ll have a to wait a bit longer for the eDGe to make an appearance, and pay a bit more for the privilege of owing one. It’s not a bad little device[......]
Don’t get your hopes up here. Infinitec’s Infinite USB Memory Device , or IUM for short, is neither infinite or memory. Rather, it’s a wireless USB device that allows Wi-Fi data streaming from a host computer, which relegates the terms infinite and memory to the host. [......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Today, Google Gmail customers are seeing a promised round of software changes whose purpose is to make Google Buzz users more aware of their privacy options, and to give them a more obvious way to back out of Buzz. These changes come a mere nine days after the social networking product's rollout as an element of Gmail, although some have already claimed personal damage, and have already begun legal action[......]
OCZ has introduced another tempting SSD, the Vertex LE, which offers some pretty impressive specs. [......]
The current lot of PDAs, and perhaps their smartphone and Tablet PC stand-ins, are neat technology, but could you go to war with one? (Maybe even more relevant: could you afford to drop yours?) If what you need is something that will withstand a lot more abuse, AIS Industrial Innovations has something that might interest you: the Mobile Rugged PDA (RPDA37) , with the looks and brawn that pair well with your cosplay Master Chief outfit. The Mobile Rugged PDA is MIL-STD-810F/461F compliant, has an “ingress protection rating of IP67†and meets the IEC 60529 (IP65) international protection standard. [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews An Australian federal court has ordered game hardware distributor RSJ IT Solutions, parent company of GadgetGear, to immediately stop selling the R4 DS modification chip that allows pirated games to be played on the popular handheld console. The R4 chip is a microSD reader that fits into the Nintendo DS' Slot-1 port and bypasses all security functions, so the user can play music and movies, read text files, create homebrew software, and, of course, play copied games. It usually retails for around $45. [......]
